Ash Little Photography

I love taking photos even while traveling. Check out my San Fran trip here for a little verification! I went to Vieques recently and took A LOT of gear as you will notice in the photo below. It’s pretty easy with thinktank’s great gear. So I was then ready to take some awesome vacation photos.

There was one minor(MAJOR) problem. I had just recently purchased the new iPhone 4. The main reason I upgraded it was the camera. Yep, I’m a sucker for technology.

Now the funny thing was I never touched my Canon gear the entire time I was gone. I decided to make a commitment and just use my iPhone the entire time. Iphone VERSUS $20k worth of Canon equipment? Check out the photos below from Vieques.

Vieques is a very small island and it also has wild horses about anywhere you go.

Lots of the locals also have horses and can be seen/heard riding through the towns. I took both the shots at sunset in Esperanza. Life is a little slower here. I felt like I was Ernest Hemingway in Key West in the 1930’s.

I jumped off that cliff a few times myself but it was recorded on Angie’s Canon so it can’t make this Iphone blog post. Just imagine me gracefully diving off of it, lol.

We also went sailing, with my parents, as well. That’s Mike Almond and his wife in the front. We met them on the sailboat. They were from Canada and had been vacationing for two weeks. I’m about to email him this blog post when it goes live!

A couple more shots of the sailboat. We actually went snorkeling too but since the Iphone isn’t waterproof it didn’t make the trip. The last time I was in Puerto Rico I drowned Angie’s $500 point and shoot(camera) during a snorkeling trip but it’s a small price to pay when you’re trying to get that shot of a lifetime right?!?

Here’s the sailboat before we left and also a photograph of my stepfather Jerry.

Here’s a few candid shots of Angie.

It’s hard to explain but this island reminds me of the Fox series “LOST”. It probably has something to do with an old military base being there a decade ago and also restricted areas on the island. Sounds like a great place for a good conspiracy theory to me.

This was flying in and my footprints in the sand.

Not only did I take photos with the Iphone but I also recorded video as well. I decided to put this little movie together of the clips I recorded using it along with the new One Republic song “Good Life” that I heard the other day. Hope you enjoy.

Thanks for checking out the blog. I’ve never shot a wedding in Vieques but I would love to. I’ve been to the island so many times I feel I would “Babe Ruth” it and knock it out of the park. I plan on using my pro gear when that happens though!

I’m about to take the super easy road on this blog post. I’ve been trying to complete Julie & Jeremie’s blog post but I’m still lacking on the text. Here’s how I fixed the problem for this post….a VIDEO! It’s actually a little contrasty/grainy compared to the actual photos. Pay all that money for nice equipment to NOT have grainy photos and then I add grain to it in the video….kills me. It wasn’t completely on purpose but more of a photobooth video leftover.

Ok. So here’s the story. I met with these potential clients once(not Rachel and Danny shown below), and they were asking, “hey Ash, how many photos are taken at a wedding”? So it really can vary. Day weddings tend to be less photos taken for some reason…usually because they are shorter but it depends on how many photographers there are. There are lots of variables involved and I could go on for days with the different situations etc.

So my response was “probably around 2,500″.

They chime back,”well we have a friend that shoots for National Geographic(or something like it) and he said anyone that shoots that many photos at a wedding doesn’t know what they are doing”.

WOW! REALLY?

Ok bud. Here’s 1200 photos and nobody’s blinking!

Wedding Coordinator : Emmy Brooks at Peacock Events
Wedding Location : Linda McCormick at the Thomas Bennett House
Wedding Music : Quiana Parler and Friends is this amazing band that had the party pumping and can be found here.
Catering : Cru Cafe(that i mentioned last year in a blog post) and their website can be found here. I actually had lunch here before the wedding started.

Here’s a few photos I did put up on the facebook page before i posted the video.

So you can shoot HD 1080p but you have no control!?!  Not exactly.  There’s a lot of buzz going around about how you can’t control the settings with this new technology.  I think there’s a pretty simple way around it.

Basically, the video feature is mostly auto.  The camera pretty much picks your ISO, shutter speed, and shoots for the widest aperture.  You run into some major problems when your outside at noon and turn on your video and basically end up getting ISO 100 and f16(compliments of the sunny 16 rule). 

Shooting at f16 there is no depth of field meaning everything in the photo is crisp.  So unless your Ansel Adams selling landscape photographs.

Solution:  Neutral Density Filters.  Just check your lighting and figure out how what strength of your filter(s) you need to get your aperture to where you want it.  Then your back to looking like you own a $50,000 video camera. 

I’m really excited about this camera/technology and can’t wait to show everyone how I’m going to implement it into Ash Little Photography.  I also demolished this ice cream writing this post.